[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.9] configure: Warn that the support for ia64 is going to be removed

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.9] configure: Warn that the support for ia64 is going to be removed

[Thomas Huth]

Access to an ia64 machine is hard to get these days, and we lack a
machine for continuous integration testing, so it is very likely
that we remove support for the ia64 TCG backend soon.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 configure | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 99d8bec..3ff8999 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -499,6 +499,11 @@ elif check_define __mips__ ; then
   cpu="mips"
 elif check_define __ia64__ ; then
   cpu="ia64"
+  echo "*** Note: The QEMU Project intends to drop support for ia64 in a near"
+  echo "*** future release since we do not have a machine for continuous"
+  echo "*** integration testing. Please get in touch via qemu-devel@nongnu.org"
+  echo "*** if you want to maintain support and can provide a test machine."
+  sleep 10
 elif check_define __s390__ ; then
   if check_define __s390x__ ; then
     cpu="s390x"
-- 
1.8.3.1

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.9] configure: Warn that the support for ia64 is going to be removed

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 March 2017 at 10:34, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> Access to an ia64 machine is hard to get these days, and we lack a
> machine for continuous integration testing, so it is very likely
> that we remove support for the ia64 TCG backend soon.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 99d8bec..3ff8999 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -499,6 +499,11 @@ elif check_define __mips__ ; then
>    cpu="mips"
>  elif check_define __ia64__ ; then
>    cpu="ia64"
> +  echo "*** Note: The QEMU Project intends to drop support for ia64 in a near"
> +  echo "*** future release since we do not have a machine for continuous"
> +  echo "*** integration testing. Please get in touch via qemu-devel@nongnu.org"
> +  echo "*** if you want to maintain support and can provide a test machine."
> +  sleep 10
>  elif check_define __s390__ ; then
>    if check_define __s390x__ ; then
>      cpu="s390x"
> --
> 1.8.3.1

I have a more general patch for this that supports marking several
host CPUs and OSes as deprecated. I just haven't posted it yet
because I'm not sure which ones we want to mark as deprecated.

thanks
-- PMM